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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Stills
Virtue
Pygmies
Still
Shall
Alps
Men
Alone
Monuments
Though
Pyramids
Lasts
Stature
Last
Builds
Fall
Monument
Makes
Egypt
Vales

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